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Hi Everyone,

I'm working on a Power Automate flow to populate a pre-designed PowerPoint template using data from an Excel file with the help of Encodian. While the flow successfully creates a new PowerPoint file, the placeholders within the template are not being replaced with the dynamic data.
I have checked the placeholders thoroughly in both PowerPoint & Word, Even checked by replacing directly the sample text instead of dynamic data, connections were checked but it didn't work.

I’ve used the Compose action to confirm that the data is being retrieved correctly from Excel, so I believe the issue lies in the step where the data is supposed to populate the template.

Could anyone help me identify what might be going wrong or suggest what I might be missing?

Thanks in advance!

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Building flows

Hi,

Step-by-Step Fix

Check Your PowerPoint Template:
- Open your template and verify placeholders are formatted as {{Title}}, {{Objectives}}, etc.
- Ensure no extra spaces or special characters

Modify Your Compose Action:

json

{
  "Title": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Title']},
  "Objectives": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Objectives']},
  "Methodology": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Methodology']},
  "Key_Metrics": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Key_Metrics']},
  "Outcome": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Outcome']},
  "Point1": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Point1']},
  "Point2": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Point2']},
  "Name": @{items('Apply_to_each')?['Name']}
}

Configure PowerPoint - Populate Action:
- Template: Reference your PowerPoint template file
- Populate Data: Use the output from your Compose action
- Output Name: Give your generated file a name